Editing a Compartment's Description

• Console
• CLI
• API

• 1. Open the navigation menu  and select Identity & Security. Under Identity, select Compartments.

     A list of the compartments that you have access to in the tenancy is displayed.

  2. Locate the compartment you want to update, select the Actions menu (), and then select Edit Description.
  3. Enter the new description. Avoid entering confidential information.
  4. Select Save.

• Use the update command and required parameters to update a compartment's name:

  Command

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  export compartment_id=compartment_ocid # https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/tools/oci-cli/latest/oci_cli_docs/cmdref/iam/compartment/update.html#cmdoption-compartment-id
  oci iam compartment update --compartment-id compartment_ocid

  For a complete list of parameters and values for CLI commands, see the CLI Command Reference.

• Run the UpdateCompartment operation to edit a compartment's description.